Quotes About Vulnerability

He realized that all men were like this; that each person was to himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid. Like here, standing. If he should scream, if he should holler for help, would it matter?

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility

doomed to be the recipient of confidences...

Eran conquistadores, y eso lo único que requiere es fuerza bruta, nada de lo que pueda uno vanagloriarse cuando se posee, ya que la fuerza no es sino una casualidad nacida de la debilidad de los otros.

It looked like a high-handed proceeding; but it was really a case of legitimate self-defense. You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

La fuerza no es sino una casualidad nacida de la debilidad de los otros.

strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

The only secret of her life was her abject terror of the time when her husband would come home to stay for good.

There is something peculiar in a small boat upon the wide seas. Over the lives born from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

a fuerza no es sino una casualidad nacida de la debilidad de los otros.

The rule of law is supposed to protect the weak against the strong and ensure fair treatment for all.

I'm cold,' Snowden said softly, 'I'm cold.' 'You're going to be all right, kid,' Yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'You're going to be all right.' 'I'm cold,' Snowden said again in a frail, childlike voice. 'I'm cold.' 'There, there,' Yossarian said, because he did not know what else to say. 'There, there.' 'I'm cold,' Snowden whimpered. 'I'm cold.' 'There, there. There, there.

She destroyed egos by the score and made men hate themselves in the morning by the way she found them, used them, and tossed them aside.

How do you feel Yossarian? Fine. No, I'm very frightened. That's good, said Major Danby. It proves you're still alive. It won't be fun. Yossarian started out. Yes it will.

When I learned you were sick , I finally felt old for the first time. You will recover, and I never will.

Dehogynem haldoklik. Mindahányan haldoklunk.

Cum te simÈ›i, Yossarian? -Bine. Ba nu, sunt foarte speriat. -Asta-i bine, spuse maiorul Danby, dovedeÈ™te c? eÈ™ti înc? viu.

Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say. I do. But I like to hear you say it. Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.

If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.

Do you love me? What? Do you? I love you. I don't know if I trust you. Maybe you shouldn't do either. Maybe I'm the one who should decide!

Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story I wanted to live - somebody who appears to be, or is, weak becoming stronger.

They'll all be waiting. Waiting for me to fall. So, come on , guys. I'm just one girl. No big hero, no protector of justice, not even a bona fide one-hundred-percent slayer. So what are you waiting for? Take me on. Hurt my world. I dare you.

Live with a man 40 years. Share his house, his meals. Speak on every subject. Then tie him up, and hold him over the volcano's edge. And on that day, you will finally meet the man.

Lies. The great human weapon. Pathetic. I'd say pathetic would be falling for them. Especially Kitty's.